Find the proposition hard to believe. Remember when the first 777 was put together Boeing were talking that with the new jigging methods in place, that one wing tip measured up exactly, where as the other was two thousandths of an inch out. (location of wingtip as measured and in relation to the complete aircraft)
Brit aircraft were something else again. Small volume, and largely hand built. There is a thread on the Belfast and its ability to handle out size loads, depended on which airframe, as all the doors differed markedly in size.
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